The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-10-27
ABOUT NEWSPAPERS.

The Waco Examiner of Sunday morn
ing last, makes an appeal to the people of
Waco, for support of certain character,
in the course of which appeal, and by way
of comparison, the Examiner uses the fol
low language:
| The Galveston News is as years old. II
has grown with the state, and it had from
its inception, the advantage of being
located in the commercial emporium OF
the state. 1t has been able to carry its
early ascendancy over into these days
but, to do that, the people of Galveston
have put up, outside of the legitimate sum
paid it for advertising, $4,000. The Dial
las News went to Dallas with a plant
already paid for, with a business in which
there was handsome clear profit
already established to its hand; but
still, in order to enable it to reach
its present excellence as news
paper, the people of Dallas put up $4,000
The News believes in legitimate sup
port, and thinks it the duty of local COM
munities to encourage vigorous and en-
terprising press as matter of interest
and benefit to the communities them
selves. Notwithstanding this belief on
the part of the News, it does not feel
called upon to permit the above extract
to pass without notice, from the fact that
the statements therein made are entirely
untrue. The Galveston News never had a
dollar put up for it in its existence by the
people of Galveston or elsewhere outside
of the sum paid it for Legitimate
advertising and subscription. Neither
did the Dallas News require $4,000 from
the people of Dallas "to enable it to reach
its present excellence" The people of
Dallas subscribed and took $4,000 worth
of stock in the corporation of A. H. Belo
d Co., at the time capitalized at $250,000,
which was a security for the stock sub
scribed in Dallas, and was consequently in
itself good business investment outside
of the establishment of the News in Dallas.
This stock is par stock, consequently the
Dallas subscribers to the News stock are not
out one cent by their investment. The plant
at Dallas was paid for by the corporations
and is worth a great deal more in itself
than the amount of stock subscribed at
Dallas. The News at Dallas has its stock.
holders as its friends, which was the
object aimed at by the management ia
offering its stock for sale. The Legitimate
is the only field in which a news
paper can win, and no subsidies
should ever be thought of in
connection with successful publication
The Examiners reckless and untruthful
assertions about the business of the News
proves very conclusively that the manage
ment of that paper does not know what il
is talking about, or, knowing what 1t is
talking about, is utterly destitute of prin
ciple in seeking to carry out its own ends
In the article referred to the Examiner
does not stop with the Galveston and
Dallas News, but proceeds, with
the same characteristic disregard
of truth and fact, to discuss
the business affairs of the Fort
Worth Gazette, Houston Post, san
Antonio Express and The STATESMAN
The Examiners statements about The
STATESMAN are entirely false and untrue
in every respect, and The STATESMAN
adopts the conclusion of the 'News" that
the management of "the Examiner does